On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:05:50AM -0500, Stas Bekman wrote: > Michael Peppler wrote: > >On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 18:28, Stas Bekman wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>As mod_perl 2 is going to be released shortly the issue with DBI and > >>friends not being thread-safe (I believe DBI is fine, but DBDs are not) > >>becomes a problem. Since Apache 2 has a bunch of threaded MPM > >>implementations and while Unix users could always use prefork MPM (no > >>threads) windows users can't afford this luxary, they need the modules to > >>be thread-safe in order to use those. > > > > > >DBD::Sybase is thread-safe, AFAIK, provided that it is built with the _r > >version of the Sybase libraries. > > Any chance http://dbi.perl.org/ could have a section which documents this > issue? i.e. specify starting from what version a given DBD is thread safe > and what are the build/linking requirement (_r lib)?
The plan for dbi.perl.org is to move towards wiki (Kwiki) content management. Then anyone with a perl.org account can edit pages (with revision control and emailing of diffs etc). Meanwhile, Ilya has given up hope of finding time to maintain the site. I've found another volunteer and I'm working with him to get upto speed. Tim.
